Chapter I:
Stygan awoke as the sun journeyed high in the sky. It was late in the day, but that didn't stop him nor Malon from sleeping so late in the day. The hike from Lake Hylia had not been an easy one. The storm the night before was treacherous and sleep was something that neither one of them had been getting for the past few days. Still asleep, the farm girl shifted in his arms. Unconsciously, she moved closer to his crotch.
The bulge in his light brown began to grow and harden. Stygan shook her awake before the bulge got any bigger.
She shifted again, groaning.
Stygan shook her again, a little harder this time. "Wake up, Malon"
Her brown eyes blinked awake. She squinted due to the brightness of the sun.
"Why'd you wake me up?" she said, still half asleep.
"Because" replied Stygan. "It's already noon, if were going to make it to the beach in time, then we'd better get a move on"
Stygan stood up and picked up his deadly blade, which resembled the master sword, except instead of a purple hilt with rounded edges, it had a black hilt with pointed edges which looked like bat wings. And instead of a tri-force symbol on the base of the blade, there was a red pentagram with the point facing down towards the hilt. He then picked up his shield, which resembled a Hylian shield, except the inside was red instead of blue and instead of a silver rim it was metallic black. In the place of the bird and Triforce, there was a bat and a black pentagram with the point facing towards the bottom of the shield. He put on his black leather boots and was ready to go.
Malon ran her fingers through her long orange hair which blew across her creamy white skin in the warm morning summer breeze. She was still half asleep and wasn't looking forward to the road ahead.
Malon picked up her bow and started walking south. Stygan followed.
"Do you even know where your going, Mal?" sighed Stygan.
"Well, since were in, like, the middle of the continent, any way is the right way" she said, in a teasing matter of fact tone.
They walked for hours until it was night fall. Stygan was walking behind Malon when he suddenly put his hand on her shoulder.
"Wait a minute" he said, looking around. He sensed trouble.
"What is it?" asked Malon, grabbing Stygan's arm.
He put a finger to his lips, signaling for her to be quiet.
Stygan slowly drew his sword out of the sheath on his back, ready for anything that came his way. Out of the darkness he saw two green glowing orbs. They were moving towards the two travelers.
Stygan waited till it came into the light. It was a Stalfos. Its skeletal facial features outlines in the moonlight. Enlarged skull, sunken glowing green dots for eyes which held no life, a long bone horn in front of the hole of which a nose once was. Its grotesque bottom jaw was overlapped by the four remaining long flat teeth, resembling a rodent's; two long ones together in the front and two shorter ones on either side. Tied to the shoulders of the Stalfos were two giant skulls, their four long teeth curving down the shoulders of the skeletal warrior. It stood there for a minute, its sunken green eyes looking at Malon. Malon made eye contact with them and shuddered. It was like looking death straight in the face. She looked away.
The skeleton took a step forward and Stygan took an immediate defensive move. It raised its sword. Stygan raised his own to protect Malon. A long lifeless breath escaped from the creatures gaping jaw.
Stygan motioned for Malon to run, never looking away from the re-born warrior.
"Run!" he said, still in a defensive position.
Malon ran as fast as she could to a near by tree and watched as the battle between Stygan and this abomination unfolded.
The creature took a quick slash at Stygan. Stygan dodged it.
"Is that all you've got?" taunted Stygan.
The creature let out another lifeless hiss.
"Come get some" Stygan provoked.
The creature lunged forward swiping at Stygan with his sword. Stygan leaped sideways, out of the way of the creature's sword and stabbed it in the spine.
The skeleton turned around and looked at Stygan. It provoked him with its eyes while still standing hunched over, jaw open.
"You want some?" Stygan called.
The Stalfos lunged at Stygan again, nearly hitting him.
Stygan stood there, ready for another attack. The creature ran at him again, but this time, Stygan stood there.
"What are you doing Stygan? Move out of the way!" Malon said to herself from behind the tree.
The creature was gaining ground, fast. When the creature was a few feet away, Stygan took its buckler as it ran past. The Skeleton stood there without its shield. Stygan hurled the buckler back at its owner.
The large metal disk flew threw the air and straight into Stalfos' rib cage. It hit, right on target, and shattered the skeleton's ribcage and severing its spine. It stood there, jaw open. Slowly, the green dots in its eyes faded into the darkness of its sockets. The broken skeleton warrior fell and disappeared in a puff of blue flames before it hit the ground.
Malon came running from behind the tree to congratulate Stygan. Stygan saw her running towards him and waved his hands frantically, screaming.
"No! Go back! Run Malon!" he screamed, but Malon kept running towards him, not noticing that he was telling her to go back, or the Stalwolf running right for her.
The Stalwolf ran towards her, its dirty fur blowing as it ran. Its sunken green globes watching her. The demonic K-9, its rotted jaw gaping wide, lunged for Malon's throat. Stygan could only watch in horror as it sank its teeth into her jugular.
Written by: THE JAYMON